{"id":396843,"date":"2026-07-13T18:37:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T18:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/396843\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T18:37:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T18:37:11","slug":"hmong-influencer-opens-nyabtee-kitchen-in-fresno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/396843\/","title":{"rendered":"Hmong influencer opens NyabTee Kitchen in Fresno"},"content":{"rendered":"

For years, Tee Her and his wife, Porxoua Moua, have been regulars at the Fresno Hmong New Year. They run a booth where they sell Hmong food, spice packets and sauces, and have served thousands of people within a single day.<\/p>\n

Their success at the annual celebrations is what prompted Moua to become an influencer. Online, she goes by NyabTee, which means \u201cTee\u2019s wife\u201d or \u201cdaughter-in-law through Tee.\u201d<\/p>\n

NyabTee Live has 124,700 followers on TikTok and an additional 70,000 on Facebook, as well as an additional page, NyabTee Cooking, which has 1,700 followers. There, Moua sells the spice packets and the sauces, and receives hundreds of comments and messages asking how to buy prepared food year-round.<\/p>\n

Now, Moua and Her have opened their first restaurant, NyabTee Kitchen, at 635 N. First St. in Fresno.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s gotten to the point where we can\u2019t do this at home,\u201d Her said.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s nowhere to sit inside the restaurant, but outside there\u2019s a couple of small wooden picnic tables with large red umbrellas for shade. Pictures of the food the restaurant serves line the outside wall as customers walk in, but Her said the menu does change based on feedback from customers.<\/p>\n

\u201cPractice what you preach. Eat what you cook,\u201d Her said. \u201cIf I don\u2019t like it, I don\u2019t cook it for someone else.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Tee Tee Her, second from right, owns NyabTee’s Kitchen with his wife Porxoua Moua. The new Asian restaurant recently opened on First north of Belmont in Fresno. It offers Hmong food but also other Asian influences like Cambodian, Thai and Indian among their dishes. Pictured with Her is his staff from left, Yia Thao, Lavee Vang, and Malee Xiong. CRAIG KOHLRUSS ckohlruss@fresnobee.com <\/p>\n

Hmong are an ethnic minority from East and Southeast Asia. As such, while there are some foods that are uniquely Hmong, the cuisine shares a lot with surrounding cultures, like Laotian, Cambodian, Indian and Vietnamese food.<\/p>\n

Her and Moua travel often, and Her said they bring back ideas of what to serve when they come home.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you want good food, we\u2019ll have something for you. That\u2019s our goal,\u201d Her said.<\/p>\n

Her said he and Moua worked closely with both the city and the county before they opened the restaurant. Neither of them have owned a restaurant before, and Her was grateful for the support they received, both from the agencies and the community.<\/p>\n

On the first day they opened, June 6, Her and Moua thought they had enough food on hand to supply the restaurant for a week. They sold out in two days, and now they have suppliers coming every morning to make sure the restaurant doesn\u2019t run out again.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m guessing that we\u2019re doing it right,\u201d Her said.<\/p>\n

To return that support, Her and Moua work with people to meet the larger community needs. The restaurant normally opens at 10 a.m., but they\u2019ve started opening a little earlier to help out nurses getting off of a 12-hour overnight shift at the nearby hospital. The nurses will stop by the restaurant on the way home, pick up the food and have it on hand for their families to eat during the day.<\/p>\n

Moua finds it fulfilling to share her food and see customers enjoy it. While about half of their sales come from people who see the food on social media and come in to try it, the other half is from the community around them, and Moua knows them and greets them with a hug.<\/p>\n

Opening earlier also helps people who travel to come try their food. Her said they\u2019ve had customers come in from as far away as Los Angeles, and they\u2019ll stop by the restaurant while they\u2019ve got business in Fresno.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re also working on improving their ability to fill online orders. Her said that he and Moua are working to get a Processed Food Registration permit, which will allow them to better ship their sauce and spice packets to people out of state.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s a learning process as well, but Her has already learned and developed a lot of new skills as part of owning the business, and isn\u2019t afraid to learn more.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou don\u2019t need to know everything,\u201d Her said. \u201cYou just need to be able to open up.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Malee Malee Xiong serves up a bowl of one of the specials for a customer at NyabTee’s Kitchen, a new Asian restaurant on First north of Belmont in Fresno. It offers Hmong food but also other Asian influences like Cambodian, Thai and Indian among their dishes. CRAIG KOHLRUSS ckohlruss@fresnobee.com \"Various Various dishes are freshly prepared for customers at NyabTee’s Kitchen, a new Asian restaurant on First north of Belmont in Fresno. It offers Hmong food but also other Asian influences like Cambodian, Thai and Indian among their dishes. CRAIG KOHLRUSS ckohlruss@fresnobee.com \"Spring Spring rolls are packaged for sale at NyabTee’s Kitchen, a new Asian restaurant on First north of Belmont in Fresno. CRAIG KOHLRUSS ckohlruss@fresnobee.com \"NyabTee's NyabTee’s Kitchen is a new Asian restaurant on First north of Belmont in Fresno. It offers Hmong food but also other Asian influences like Cambodian, Thai and Indian among their dishes. CRAIG KOHLRUSS ckohlruss@fresnobee.com
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Amber Hair (they\/them) is the food and restaurants reporter and influencer. Amber has been in professional journalism for more than a decade, writing for outlets like the Orlando Sentinel, The Villages Daily Sun, the Pacific Coast Business Times and others. In their spare time, they enjoy going to concerts, reading and spending time with their cats.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For years, Tee Her and his wife, Porxoua Moua, have been regulars at the Fresno Hmong New Year.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-396843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}